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Franklin Natl Bank: thug gets $191,280, Floral Pk branch, after kidnapping asst mgr
Govt places primary responsibility for developing resources with local pub and private interests, Interior Dept statement; Fed works ltd to projects beyond local and private means; Pres Eisenhower and other Govt leaders comment
police and soldiers fight rioting Tudeh and Nationalist extremist mobs, Teheran; Tudeh mobs sack Pan-Iranist hdqrs; Mossadegh partisans bo pro-Shah demonstration; Mil Gov bans unauthorized demonstrations, radio s; rioting reptd, Resht; Govt posts 100,000rial reward for information on Zahedi; Shoh confirms issuing decrees dismissing Mossadegh and appting Zahedi Premier; conflicting repts on Zahedi whereabouts; Tudeh warns Govt to halt appeasement of Ct and 'anglo-Amer Imperialists'; other demands; Govt arrests more Opposition leaders, including H Maki; Henderson conf with Mossadegh
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Flynn, Edw J
1953Cold War: The CIA and MI6 help to overthrow the government of Mohammad Mosaddegh in Iran and reinstate the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.[†]
The Cold War was a period of global geopolitical rivalry between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the capitalist Western Bloc and communist Eastern Bloc, which began in the aftermath of the Second World War and ended with the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. The term cold war is used because there was no direct fighting between the two superpowers, though each supported opposing sides in regional conflicts known as proxy wars. In addition to the struggle for ideological and economic influence and an arms race in both conventional and nuclear weapons, the Cold War was expressed through technological rivalries such as the Space Race, espionage, propaganda campaigns, embargoes, and sports diplomacy.
In 1953, the world population was approximately 2,634,106,235 people[†]